Welcome to the 4th day of Christmas — 2nd Advent! It is time to light the second candle on your Advent wreath. This is also scary cos that means it is less than 3 weeks until Christmas! Lots of preparations to do. The advent wreath is traditionally a German Lutheran celebration of Jesus’ arrival. Opposed to the Advent calendar, there are no gifts for each candle that is lit. While you will …
Welcome to the 3rd day of Christmas! Today’s theme are nutcrackers. We’ve always had some around at home, perfect to crunch walnuts and hazelnuts. I just love in how many different sizes and outfits these come. I had a lot of fun creating these three fellows and I thought I had so much fun doing them, maybe other will have, too. So I decided to offer them as coloring pages …
Welcome to the 2nd day of Christmas! Today’s theme are candy canes and the freebie is a 5×7 in greeting card in color and outlines, to color yourself. All you have to do to access the file is share the URL and pay with a tweet or facebook post. The button to do so is right here and after you share, you will be forwarded to the download link: And …
Welcome to the first day of Christmas! I am starting this off with an illustration of a traditional Adventcalendar. Every day until Christmas Eve you open one door with a special something inside. Usually chocolate. It’s a great way to start the day by nibbling on Christmas candy while consuming that first cup of glorious coffee. To start off the giveaways I will share with you one of my Merry …
Today is the 1st Advent aka the 4th Sunday before Christmas and I want to take this day as a chance to announce my 24 Days of Christmas event! Just like people celebrate the 4 Sundays before Christmas, especially in Germany, we also celebrate with Christmas Calendars that have one door for every day of December until the 24th. Following that tradition I will be posting daily Christmas illustrations and accompanying gifts …
